CONFORMINGTO

POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.

BUGS

sleep() may be implemented using SIGALRM; mixing calls to alarm(2) and
sleep() is a bad idea.
Using longjmp(3) from a signal handler or modifying the handling of
SIGALRM while sleeping will cause undefined results.

SEEALSO

COLOPHON

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